#stauntonva

Vaccinations & Live Music

This lady is a seasoned pro who hasn't played live in a year because of Covid.

I had the pleasure of chatting and sitting next to her. A front porch event in Staunton Virginia!

Jerome Kern might be an older dog, but that doesn’t stop him from having fun. He arrived at our shelter as a pitiful little stray, but after some good nutrition and TLC he’s ready to find a forever home. His sparse fur is due to chronic allergies that have gone untreated before his arrival, so we have him on some good antihistamines and he’s getting regular medicated baths to soothe his itchy skin. 

He might not be the “prettiest” dog ever to grace us, but his goofy, spunky personality and easy-going attitude definitely make up for it in spades. We would love to help him find a forever home that doesn’t mind his appearance, or one that might love him because of it instead of in spite of it. Please share to help him meet his new family!

St. Francis of Assisi was one hellava Saint if you care to look him up.  A rock star amongst Saints.  I  remember Frank McCourt thinking the world of him in Angela’s Ashes.  I think he prayed to him, so the family wouldn’t starve to death.  

The dark church in this snowy picture (that is snow, not clouds) is named after him and it is a beautiful old structure in this sleepy little hamlet called Staunton, established in 1761 with the town formally incorporated in 1801.  I imagine this church was built sometime after a railroad stop appeared in 1854.

The City is home to the Western State Lunatic Asylum which was built 1871, or 72.  When the first building was closed, (from what was likely inhumane treatment) they built a bigger building for the inmates..err…I mean patients were basically let go.  So they dispersed throughout the town.  This has lead to many stories about all sorts of things on people who populated this town, or died in that building…or died in the second building, but have come back as ghosts to haunt the town.